biography
pronunciation:
[royter]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1953)
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Apenrade, W Germany. He joined the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in 1912. After 1918 he built the Kommunistiche Partei Deutschlands (KPD) organization in Berlin, served as its secretary general (1921), was excluded from the party in 1922, and returned to the SPD. He became Oberbürgermeister of Magdeburg (1931–3), a member of the Reichstag (1932–3), and was twice imprisoned in concentration camps (1933–5) after which he became adviser to the government and professor in Turkey (1935–46). In 1947 he was nominated Oberbürgermeister of Berlin, but was prevented from taking up his post by the Soviet veto until 1948. In 1950–3 he was Regierender Bürgermeister of West Berlin. |
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